ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the factors on the basis of eighteen months of fieldwork conducted in 1976-1977 in the Jbalan qabila of Bni Msawwar and in the city of Tangier. In Anjera and Bni Msawwar, this occurs on a large scale, due no doubt to the easy connections between these qabilas and the towns of the Protectorate, of Tangier, and of Ceuta, for charcoal is exported to these places in considerable quantities. The chapter discusses several scholars involved in Morocco's antierosion program, and plan to publish a translation of it in Morocco to make the appropriate policy makers aware of the plight of the highland Jbala who may have to choose between illegal charcoal making and emigration to Tangier. The Spanish prohibited slash-and-burn cultivation in most of the northern Moroccan highlands to prevent deforestation and erosion. Like the rest of the Third World, Morocco has experienced massive rural-urban migration since the mid-twentieth century.
